Re: Why don't we talk about segments/objects instaead of layers? Re: Lost Layer?

Am 19.02.2014 22:54, schrieb Andrew Mcgregor:
> The best attempt at that so far as I know is "Joseph Hui and Ezhan Karasan, A
> Thermodynamic Theory of Broadband Networks with Application to Dynamic
> Routing, IEEE J. Selected Areas of Communications, 1995, v13 pp 991--1003".
>  It works, but isn't as illuminating as some of the more recent work, using
> new mathematics to help.  Keyword for that is 'network calculus'.
>
>
Thermodynamic Theory. Please get alive. Cars travel along streets,
people walk along the pavement, neither of them suffers from congestion
related drop, neither knows about "Thermodynamics".

I once was told a VERY basic wisdom of engineering. "What cannot be
achieved by a simple means can neither be achieved by a sopisticated means".

So networking should be done by simple, well understood mechanisms. I
don't see a real use for overcomplicated calculus. Particularly when the
models are not really close to reality.